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Posted By David on June 10th, 2009

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! File this one under “R”, for Ridiculously COOL!  The kind folks at Design Commission have created an aluminum stencil in the shape of an iPhone. It features all the uniquely iPhone shapes and icons that any designer would need [...]

 
Posted By David on February 11th, 2009

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Have any of you heard of The Vector Lab? Well, I hadn’t until recently. There are tons of free vector sites floating around on the internet, and lets face it, most of them resemble the other stuff that “floats” around. The Vector Lab seems to be a pretty legit place. Cause the free vectors? No! [...]

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Posted By David on February 9th, 2009

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So AJ at Phire Design created some really cool Photoshop brushes. I like the concept for this set. They are old fairytale images that have been distressed to add a nice, kind of eerie, grunge effect to them. Personally, they remind me of the darkness of some of the old original fairytale stories. Now days [...]

Posted By David on February 7th, 2009

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Hey, go support I ♥ Vector. If you’ve never heard if them, they are a great site that offers tons of free vectors. The designer is having a baby and needs some financial help to keep the site going. Plus, they are giving away a great vector pack worth $14.99. Please find it in your [...]

Posted By David on February 6th, 2009

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Here are some great Heraldry Animal silhouettes from AllSilhouettes. Everything from Pegasus to Dragons, lots of vectors for anytime of designs. While on the subject of Heraldry, go check out this great tutorial on Bittbox. You’ll learn some great tricks to distressing and destroying your Heraldry vectors. Go get ‘em! – God bless!

Posted By David on February 5th, 2009

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Check out these flippin’ sweet old film textures from Lost and Taken via Bittbox.  This particular set has 5 hi-res textures all packed up in a neat little zip file. Lost and Taken has an amazing site full of free textures covering all areas of God’s good green earth. Every Tuesday Bittbox highlights a certain [...]

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Posted By David on February 4th, 2009

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Here is a logo that I did for a contest on Logosauce. The contest was for a new electronica based record label called 3,000 Records. I didn’t end up winning (I’M NOT BITTER!!!…) but I am pretty happy with the outcome. I’m open to any comments or suggestions on the piece. Good or bad(?)! – [...]

Posted By David on February 4th, 2009

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This is an amazing tutorial hosted at an equaling amazing website, PSDTUTS. This particular tutorial was created by Alvaro Guzman, a great Web Developer and Designer from Bolivia. It covers, in great detail, the creation of a magical looking blog site that is sure to have your costumers believing in fairytale. Check it out. – [...]

Posted By David on February 4th, 2009

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Check out these way cool hand drawn vector wings from Go Media. They have a few sample you can download. You should definitely pick this vector pack up. I’ve purchased many packs form Go Media, they are great designers and great business people. Check it out. Jimiyo was gracious enough to add some more free [...]

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